Sincere efforts are being made to complete 33 lakh houses in the current
financial year, in partnership with States.

In the current financial year, on 20thNovember,
2016, Hon’ble Prime Minister formally launched Pradhan MantriAwaasYojana
(Gramin) - PMAY(G), with an original approval for33 lakhs new PMAY
Gramin houses, which has now been increased to 44 lakhs.

The targets have been communicated to the States and after following an
intensive process of beneficiary selection using SECC ( Socio-Economic
Caste Census-2011) and Gram Sabha, housing design typology
finalization, finalization of training programme of rural masons and geo
tagging of all currently occupied houses to establish that only poor
households have been selected, States have started the registration
process for construction and over 14.23 lakh beneficiaries have already
been registered so far.

16.53 lakh images of current dwellings are uploaded on the
AwaasSoftwebsite. The work on all these houses are expected to be
started over the next one month, and completion period for these houses
has been brought down to only 12 months with efforts to complete more
than 50 per cent of houses in six months. Most of these 44 lakh houses
are expected to be completed before December, 2017. Altogether one crore
and 33 lakh houses will be completed in three years from 2016-17 to
2018-19.

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